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Cover of Alex Caldiero book

Poetry Month: Poetry is Wanted Here {format} {format} 4:23 Alex Caldiero

From the collection Various Atmospheres. [transcript]

Broadcast: Apr 6 2005 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Poetry Month Subjects: Literature, Spoken Word


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Hearing Voices 8:16 Barrett Golding

Barbara Bogaev interviews us for this on-air tour of HearingVoices.com, accompanied by excerpts from our collection of Radio Audities.

Broadcast: May 22 2004 on APM Weekend America Subjects: Art, Spoken Word


California recall debate

Language Removal of the California Recall Race {format} {format} 2:37 Larry Massett

Earlier this year we introduced listeners to Douglas Fleishut, one of the founders of Language Removal Services. That’s an outfit that takes recordings of human speech and eliminates the words, leaving breathing and umms and ahhs. Recently, the Language Removal folks have turned their attention to the candidates in the California recall election. [transcript]

Broadcast: Oct 1 2003 on NPR All Things ConsideredSeries: Language Removal Subjects: Politics, Spoken Word


Horace Axtell

Lewis & Clark: Nez Perce Bones- Horace Axtell {format} 3:30 Barrett Golding

Nez Perce elder and spiritual leader Horace Axtell, from Lewiston, Idaho, talks about water, a way of life, weddings, re-burials and language. [transcript]

Broadcast: Sep 5 2003 on NPR Living on EarthSeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later Subjects: Environment, Spoken Word, Historical, Native


South African street sign, intersetcion of Princess Magogo Steeet and King Dinuzulu Highway

Speaking in Clicks {format} 3:25 Larry Massett

How to use the Zulu click language in embarrassing social situations. [transcript]

Broadcast: Aug 29 2003 on PRI/MPR Savvy Traveler Subjects: Spoken Word, Travel, International


Karzmiski on Columbia Gorge

Lewis & Clark: Ken Karzmiski {format} 3:34 Barrett Golding

Archaeologist Ken Karzmiski works at the Discovery Center, near the Dalles Dam on the Columbia River in central Oregon. On one side is Interstate-84, on the other a railroad, and in between are the memories of lost languages and cultures. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jul 18 2003 on NPR Living on EarthSeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later Subjects: Native, Historical, Environment, Spoken Word


Nose and mouth

Language Removal Service {format} {format} 4:47 Larry Massett

Language without the words, leaving only the breaths, lip-smacks, ums and ahs: "These frozen portraits of a person’s speaking habits outline a spirit or soul that underlies that language," reports the Language Removal Service. ""laboratory that is the only one of its kind in the world -- facilities include our state-of-the-art vocal observation chamber and a special storage facility for our archives, including the world-famous Raymond Chronic Static Language library." [transcript]

Broadcast: Jun 11 2003 on NPR All Things ConsideredSeries: Language Removal Subjects: Comedy, Technology, Spoken Word





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